Friedrich Hayek

Once wide coercive powers are given to government agencies…such powers cannot be effectively controlled.

All political theories assume…that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ…in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.

Individual liberty…demonstrate[s] that some manners of living are more successful than others.

The case for individual freedom rests largely upon the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

The system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

The chief evil is unlimited government…nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

To those who oppose us, we say, ‘Strike the woman, and you strike the rock.’

My use of social media is not presidential – it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!

When I read Paris Post-Modernist talk…what I see is intellectuals interacting with one another in ways which are incomprehensible to the public and, to be frank, incomprehensible to me.

We will no longer outsource to other countries. We build factories here in America and create jobs. We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.

The PR industry…have a conception of what a democracy ought to be…the specialized class are trained to do their work for the service of the masters…and the rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization because organization just causes trouble.

Most problems of teaching are not problems of growth but helping cultivate growth. As far as I know, and this is only from personal experience in teaching, I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested. Or what it usually amounts to is to not prevent them from being interested. Typically they come in interested, and the process of education is a way of driving that defect out of their minds. But if children[‘s] … normal interest is maintained or even aroused, they can do all kinds of things in ways we don’t understand.

I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn’t treat this phenomenon as something bad.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.

We have a tax-raising power in Scotland but not in English regions. I want genuine regional taxation powers [in England].

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.